Where Google states in their philosophy to “do no evil“, we believe them, and they had given us little reason to believe otherwise. Facebook on the other hand chooses to hide their philosophy of “do evil” with a long and confusing terms of service page.

According to their website, here’s what Facebook users sign away:

By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically grant… to the Company, and irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose on or in connection with the Site or the promotion thereof.

People, myself included, blindly are lured into this social networking site, later to discover that all along, Facebook has been collecting personal data about them and is using it for their own financial gain. Information from it’s 23 million users gives a pretty good idea of what sort of things people these days are doing – and other companies out there are willing to pay huge bucks to reap the benefits of what Facebook is mining.

OK, so you had a change of heart about that photo you posted and you want it off your Facebook site. No biggie – just delete it, right? Unfortunately most people also do not realize that even when you delete posts, photos, or even your account, your information is still stored in archives, and can still remain available on the web. Most of what’s on the internet can be archived.

I won’t elaborate any further because I’m certain you have heard it from a few different people already. The reality is that it’s all true – and when it comes to your privacy, one must draw the line somewhere. I choose that Facebook does evil when it comes to handling your private data, and I simply will no longer to be a part of it.

Below are facts on Facebook taken from the Vancouver daily newspaper, 24 hours.

# of Users: 23 million

# of networks: 47,000

# of user photos: 1.7 billion

Facebook is the sixth most trafficked site in the U.S. and the No. 1 photo-sharing site.

Largest Network: Boronto with more than 500,000 Facebook users

Vancouver Network: 230,000

THE BRAINS BEHIND FACEBOOK:

Mark Zuckerberg, 22: Founder and CEO

Dustin Moskovitz, 22: Co-founder and VP of engineering

Adam D’Angelo, 23: Chief technology officer

Before creating Facebook.com, CEO Zuckerberg hacked into Harvard’s student records and created Facesmash.com, a site where students could compare undergraduates’ photos and judge “who’s hotter.” The site was live for about four hours before administrators stepped in. Zuckerberg later created Facebook and dropped out of school.

GIVE A GIFTFacebook’s gift service lets users give gifts. Below is a list of he most popular:

can of whoop ass

sausage on a fork

balloon animal

flaming bag of dog feces

TECH SPECS

Page views: 30 billion per month

Searches: 600 million per month

RAM in cache: Two terabytes

Search index size: 200 GB

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